Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well... I'm a fully employed engineer, here in Silly Cone Valley. I'm 66. I was hired by Agilent when I was 61. When Agilent downsized a couple of years ago, I got cut as did my 28 year old genius son-in-law. So it was department and project cutting rather than weeding out us old folks. I immediately joined a startup at 64. So, not all companies around here are stupid like Google. Over the years I have hired dozens of engineers beginning when I worked at AMD in the early 70's. I always looked for real world experience and completed projects rather than age and scholastic accomplishments. I was never disappointed. Actually, once, when I was managing the software department at Omnipoint in Colorado Springs. One guy. Good resume, good interviews. Good references. Lots of applicable work experience. But a real ringer. Ended up getting harassment suits filed against him by some of the female engineers. He didn't believe a woman could be an engineer. Some of the very best engineers that I have worked with have been women. Really sorry to hear about your problem Brian. I hope you win big time! JB At 03:18 PM 7/23/2004, Jeffery Smith wrote: >I prefer hiring seasoned faculty and staff because they don't have to go >through all of the screw-ups that we all did when we were younger. And I >am particularly leery of people who have just completed graduate school. >At that moment, a person's reality check quotient (how much they know >divided by how much they think they know) is at its absolute lowest. The >problem is, the folks who just got out of graduate school tend to favor >other folks just out of graduate school. > >Jeffery Smith >New Orleans, LA